New Jersey Disaster Prevention Planning and Preparation

Critical Components for an Effective Disaster Prevention Plan:

Utilize redundant hard drives (RAID VOLUMES) for redundancy

• Most common components to fail are hard drives
• Make sure your servers include redundant power supplies

Power protection hardware: Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)

• UPS (Battery Backups) are critical for power failures / surges

Synchronize all user data to the server

• My documents folder redirection to server

Utilize Secure Remote Data Backup Service: (Off-site Backup)

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Proactive Server Maintenance Plan - Through regular service and maintenance of servers, we can keep downtime to a minimum.

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Business Disruption Avoidance & Disaster Prevention Procedures:

• Review of "Backup Calendar"
• Semi annual analysis of integrity of all tape media
• Monthly (or as necessary) cleaning of tape drive(s)
• Quarterly test of battery backup shut down procedure
• Semi annual test of RAID functionality and rebuild procedures